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2000 PLUS Two Thousand Plus was arguably the first radio anthology science fiction series for adults, arriving on the Mutual Broadcasting Network about a month before the better-known Dimension X debuted on NBC. Airing March 15, 1950, to December 26, 1951, it was created by Sherman H. Dryer and produced with Robert Weenolsen. There were earlier series with science fiction themes like the 1941 series Latitude Zero , and juvenile serials like Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and Flash Gordon ,...
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THE JOAN DAVIS SHOW The Joan Davis Show is a title applied — in some cases specifically and in other cases generically — to several old-time radio comedy programs in the United States, some of which had other distinct titles as indicated below. Comedian Joan Davis starred in the programs, all but one version of which were broadcast on CBS. The Sealtest Village Store (1943-1945) Singer Rudy Vallée's joining the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II left Sealtest Dairy with no star for The...
Topic: OTR Joan Davis
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OUR MISS BROOKS Ryan Ellett Our Miss Brooks took its first tentative step toward reality during the weekend of April 10-11, 1948, when an audition show featuring Shirley Booth was cut in New York City. CBS head William Paley was directly involved in the show’s development and when he and Booth couldn’t see eye to eye on the new program, Booth was dropped from the project. Joan Blondell was briefly considered for the part but Eve Arden eventually landed the lead role. A second audition...
Topic: OTR Our Miss Brooks
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THE VOYAGE OF THE SCARLET QUEEN From July 3, 1947 to February 25, 1948, The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen brought listeners the weekly adventures of Philip Karney, master of the namesake ketch the Scarlet Queen , and his crew as they traveled around the seas of southeast Asia. Created by Command Radio Productions, the show was purchased for broadcasting by the Mutual network. While Howard Duff played Karney in the audition episode and Alan Ladd was approached about the part, Elliott Lewis took...
Topic: OTR Voyage of the Scarlet Queen
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HOLLYWOOD SPOTLIGHT Research provided by Karl Schadow Hollywood Spotlight was a syndicated musical series consisting of 39 episodes, all of which were recorded in 1937 according to historical records. The series was produced by Bruce Eels and the Radio Transcription Company, or Transco. The first episodes were released to stations before the end of the year. Cliff Howell served as Master of Ceremonies for the series under the name “Tom Jeffrey.” Notably the program featured Phil Harris and...
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JONATHAN THOMAS AND HIS CHRISTMAS ON THE MOON Jonathan Thomas and His Christmas on the Moon is a daily children’s series that ran between Thanksgiving and Christmas in 1938. The story begins with six year old Jonathan Thomas lying in bed on Christmas Eve with his teddy bear Guz. While he is lying in bed, two elves slide down a moonbeam into his room. Guz, his teddy bear, chases the elves back up the moonbeam and Jonathan Thomas follows in order to get his Guz back. Upon reaching the moon,...
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JONATHAN THOMAS AND HIS CHRISTMAS ON THE MOON Jonathan Thomas and His Christmas on the Moon is a daily children’s series that ran between Thanksgiving and Christmas in 1938. The story begins with six year old Jonathan Thomas lying in bed on Christmas Eve with his teddy bear Guz. While he is lying in bed, two elves slide down a moonbeam into his room. Guz, his teddy bear, chases the elves back up the moonbeam and Jonathan Thomas follows in order to get his Guz back. Upon reaching the moon,...
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2000 PLUSS Two Thousand Plus was arguably the first radio anthology science fiction series for adults, arriving on the Mutual Broadcasting Network about a month before the better-known Dimension X debuted on NBC. Airing March 15, 1950, to December 26, 1951, it was created by Sherman H. Dryer and produced with Robert Weenolsen. There were earlier series with science fiction themes like the 1941 series Latitude Zero , and juvenile serials like Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and Flash Gordon ,...
Topics: OTRR, Old Time Radio Researchers Group, Old Time Radio, OTRR Set, OTRR Maintained Set, 2000 Plus,...
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HOLLYWOOD SPOTLIGHT Research provided by Karl Schadow Hollywood Spotlight was a syndicated musical series consisting of 39 episodes, all of which were recorded in 1937 according to historical records. The series was produced by Bruce Eels and the Radio Transcription Company, or Transco. The first episodes were released to stations before the end of the year. Cliff Howell served as Master of Ceremonies for the series under the name “Tom Jeffrey.” Notably the program featured Phil Harris and...
Topics: OTRR, Old Time Radio Researchers Group, Old Time Radio, OTRR Set, OTRR Curated Set, Hollywood...
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Nov 14, 2022
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THE JOAN DAVIS SHOW The Joan Davis Show is a title applied — in some cases specifically and in other cases generically — to several old-time radio comedy programs in the United States, some of which had other distinct titles as indicated below. Comedian Joan Davis starred in the programs, all but one version of which were broadcast on CBS. The Sealtest Village Store (1943-1945) Singer Rudy Vallée's joining the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II left Sealtest Dairy with no star for The...
Topics: OTRR, Old Time Radio Researchers Group, Old Time Radio, OTRR Set, OTRR Maintained Set, The Joan...
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OUR MISS BROOKS Ryan Ellett Our Miss Brooks took its first tentative step toward reality during the weekend of April 10-11, 1948, when an audition show featuring Shirley Booth was cut in New York City. CBS head William Paley was directly involved in the show’s development and when he and Booth couldn’t see eye to eye on the new program, Booth was dropped from the project. Joan Blondell was briefly considered for the part but Eve Arden eventually landed the lead role. A second audition...
Topics: OTRR, Old Time Radio Researchers Group, Old Time Radio, OTRR Set, OTRR Maintained Set, Our Miss...
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THE VOYAGE OF THE SCARLET QUEEN From July 3, 1947 to February 25, 1948, The Voyage of the Scarlet Queen brought listeners the weekly adventures of Philip Karney, master of the namesake ketch the Scarlet Queen , and his crew as they traveled around the seas of southeast Asia. Created by Command Radio Productions, the show was purchased for broadcasting by the Mutual network. While Howard Duff played Karney in the audition episode and Alan Ladd was approached about the part, Elliott Lewis took...
Topics: OTRR, Old Time Radio Researchers Group, Old Time Radio, OTRR Set, OTRR Maintained Set, Voyage of...
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STRANGE ROMANCE OF EVELYN WINTERS Brian Kavanaugh The Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters was a 15-minute serial soap opera that was broadcast weekdays at 10:30 A.M. on CBS radio stations between November 20, 1944 and November 12, 1948. The show told “the story of Gary Bennett, playwright, who suddenly and unexpectedly finds himself the guardian of lovely Evelyn Winters.” Gary was a friend of 20-year-old Evelyn’s father, who died in the war, and felt an obligation to take care of her. Only...
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THE AMAZING MR. MALONE Ryan Ellett Murder and Mr. Malone , starring Frank Lovejoy as Chicago’s mystery-solving lawyer John J. Malone, debuted on January 11, 1947 over ABC. Sponsored by Guild Wines through the Honig-Cooper agency, week after week Mr. Malone found himself involved in trying to solve a wide variety of killings that often involved blackmail, mistaken identities, and gambling. In the spring of 1948 the sponsor announced they were cutting ties with Mr. Malone, while at the same...
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Sep 30, 2022
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STARDUST TIME Stardust Time (1959) were short five-minute (including advertising time) entertainment vignettes intended to be broadcast at 25 minutes past the hour, Monday through Friday, featuring some of the bigger names in NBC radio at the time. This is the Single Episodes Page. The Maintained Set includes extras not found here. It is located here . This Single Episodes page is provided in case you want to sample the shows. Note that in many cases, file names have been modified from the...
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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF DENNIS DAy by Patrick Andre Born Eugene Patrick McNulty, Dennis Day would get his start in 1939 on the Jack Benny Program . Day replaced the show’s previous tenor, Kenny Baker, who left for The Fred Allen Show . At first, Day was mainly a singer with few lines and a short studio contract. But his character as an Irish kid with a head full of air quickly developed and became popular with listeners. While Day maintained his role on Benny’s program, A Day in the Life of...
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STORIES OF PACIFIC POWERLAND Ryan Ellett While old-time radio fans are generally aware of post-Golden Age dramatic radio programming such as Theatre 5 and CBS Radio Mystery Theater , a little-known series from this so-called New Time Radio era is Stories of Pacific Powerland . Sponsored by Pacific Power & Light, a utility formed in 1910, the series aired over more than 70 stations across the power company’s service region that stretched from California to Washington and over to Wyoming....
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A SALUTE TO THE LAW Ryan Ellett Nick Harris was a Los Angeles private eye who began sharing detective exploits both through live lectures and serialized newspaper recounting before stepping before the microphone in 1923 over KFI. Astonishingly, Harris’ weekly program (heard twice weekly in the late 1930s) ran for nearly 20 years until 1942. While unknown to modern old-time radio afficionados, Harris is an unquestionable pioneer of radio drama. This is the Single Episodes Page. The Maintained...
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UNDER ARREST Under Arrest was a recurring series that was a summer replacement for The Shadow on Mutual each year from 1946 to 1948. Between 1949 and 1954 it aired outside of the summer season in different time slots. Craig McDonnell is credited in the main role of Captain John Drake during the early seasons, while Joe DeSantis plays Captain Jim Scott on all the episodes in circulation. This is the Single Episodes Page. The Maintained Set includes extras not found here. It is located here ....
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ABROAD WITH THE LOCKHARTS Abroad with the Lockharts was a 13-episode syndicated romantic comedy radio series first broadcast in 1930. The earliest known broadcast date was August 17, 1930, on WCAO (Baltimore). It was broadcast at various times on various stations throughout the United States for at least the next four years, and overseas until at least 1935. The series starred real-life married couple Gene and Kathleen Lockhart as Will Lockhart and Mrs. Lockhart (first name never announced). In...
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THE DENNIS DAY SHOW Ryan Ellett Coming off working on a year-long television series entitled The Dennis Day Show (also referred to as The RCA Victor Show ) that ran from 1953 to 1954, Dennis Day returned with another namesake series in 1954, this one for radio. In June of 1954 it was announced that Mytinger & Casselberry Inc., distributor of the Nutrilite food supplement product, was going to enter the world of radio advertising by sponsoring its first show. The new series was to feature...
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THIS IS JAZZ Premiering on January 18, 1947, host Rudi Blesh’s This Is Jazz aired until October 4 of the same year. Blesh was a jazz historian, commentator, and promoter with a special interest in earlier jazz tunes and performers. His first book, Shining Trumpets , was published in 1946, a year before his radio series. This Is Jazz originated from New York’s WOR and was broadcast over the Mutual network as an unsponsored program. The series’ 35 episodes were later released by the...
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FRONTIER GENTLEMAN B. J. George “Herewith an Englishman’s account of life and death in the West. As a reporter for the London Times , he writes his colorful and unusual stories. But as a man with a gun, he lives and becomes a part of the violent years in the new territories.” Frontier Gentleman was different from other radio Westerns in that the story centered not around some colorful character out of the old West, but on a foreigner, an Englishman who came to America to experience...
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STROKE OF FATE Joe Webb From October to December 1953 NBC aired a curious historical series, Stroke of Fate . NBC’s inspiration was the successful CBS radio and television series You Are There . That series started in 1947 as CBS is There and soon adopted the more listener-focused name that made it famous. In 1953, the television version of the series started. NBC and others saw an opportunity to do something historical but with a twist. Rather than dropping modern day reporters into...
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The Casebook of Gregory Hood Brian Kavanaugh Tired of the role, in 1946 Basil Rathbone decided not to renew his contract playing Sherlock Holmes on radio’s The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes . Writers Denis Green and Anthony Boucher, needing a low budget summer replacement for it, came up with the idea for a San Francisco-based detective show called The Casebook of Gregory Hood. The main character, rather than being a traditional detective, was an antiques expert who encountered crime in...
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IF FREEDOM FAILED Brian Kavanaugh If Freedom Failed is a 26-episode series produced by the Armed Forces Radio Service in 1951. It presents a series of alternate-history stories of American life under a Cold War-era Communist regime. No other information is known about the background or production of this series at this point. These recordings originated with a private purchasing group and are all transfers made by Doug Hopkinson ca. 2015. This is the Single Episodes Page. The Maintained Set...
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DESTINATION FREEDOM Destination Freedom (1948) Brian Kavanaugh Destination Freedom is perhaps the best-known Black old-time radio series, despite only airing on Chicago’s WMAQ and never being fully sponsored throughout its duration. This is in part due to transcription disks for three-quarters of the episodes being discovered in the early 1980s and circulated among old-time radio fans, which helped inspire additional interest and research into the show. However, the powerful – and radical,...
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TOP SECRET Ryan Ellett It was announced in May 1950 that Ilona Massey had been signed for the NBC summer series Top Secret . Massey was a Hungarian-born actress who had appeared on Broadway in the 1943 Ziegfeld Follies and in a handful of Hollywood features including Rosalie (1937), Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) and Holiday in Mexico (1947). Top Secret was slated to replace The Adventures of Christopher London in the Monday night 10:30 (EST) time slot. Both series featured tales of...
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Sep 25, 2022
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THE AMAZING MR. MALONE Ryan Ellett Murder and Mr. Malone , starring Frank Lovejoy as Chicago’s mystery-solving lawyer John J. Malone, debuted on January 11, 1947 over ABC. Sponsored by Guild Wines through the Honig-Cooper agency, week after week Mr. Malone found himself involved in trying to solve a wide variety of killings that often involved blackmail, mistaken identities, and gambling. In the spring of 1948 the sponsor announced they were cutting ties with Mr. Malone, while at the same...
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Sep 16, 2022
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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF DENNIS DAy by Patrick Andre Born Eugene Patrick McNulty, Dennis Day would get his start in 1939 on the Jack Benny Program . Day replaced the show’s previous tenor, Kenny Baker, who left for The Fred Allen Show . At first, Day was mainly a singer with few lines and a short studio contract. But his character as an Irish kid with a head full of air quickly developed and became popular with listeners. While Day maintained his role on Benny’s program, A Day in the Life of...
Topics: OTRR, Old Time Radio Researchers Group, Old Time Radio, OTRR Set, OTRR Maintained Set, Day in the...
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STORIES OF PACIFIC POWERLAND Ryan Ellett While old-time radio fans are generally aware of post-Golden Age dramatic radio programming such as Theatre 5 and CBS Radio Mystery Theater , a little-known series from this so-called New Time Radio era is Stories of Pacific Powerland . Sponsored by Pacific Power & Light, a utility formed in 1910, the series aired over more than 70 stations across the power company’s service region that stretched from California to Washington and over to Wyoming....
Topics: OTRR, Old Time Radio Researchers Group, Old Time Radio, OTRR Set, OTRR Maintained Set, Stories of...
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A SALUTE TO THE LAW Ryan Ellett Nick Harris was a Los Angeles private eye who began sharing detective exploits both through live lectures and serialized newspaper recounting before stepping before the microphone in 1923 over KFI. Astonishingly, Harris’ weekly program (heard twice weekly in the late 1930s) ran for nearly 20 years until 1942. While unknown to modern old-time radio afficionados, Harris is an unquestionable pioneer of radio drama. A Salute to the Law is commonly listed as Nick...
Topics: OTRR, Old Time Radio Researchers Group, Old Time Radio, OTRR Set, OTRR Maintained Set, Salute to...
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UNDER ARREST Under Arrest was a recurring series that was a summer replacement for The Shadow on Mutual each year from 1946 to 1948. Between 1949 and 1954 it aired outside of the summer season in different time slots. Craig McDonnell is credited in the main role of Captain John Drake during the early seasons, while Joe DeSantis plays Captain Jim Scott on all the episodes in circulation. These recordings originated from the Stu Weiss Collection and were donated to the Old Time Radio Researchers...
Topics: OTRR, Old Time Radio Researchers Group, Old Time Radio, OTRR Set, OTRR Curated Set, Under Arrest,...
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ABROAD WITH THE LOCKHARTS Abroad with the Lockharts was a 13-episode syndicated romantic comedy radio series first broadcast in 1930. The earliest known broadcast date was August 17, 1930, on WCAO (Baltimore). It was broadcast at various times on various stations throughout the United States for at least the next four years, and overseas until at least 1935. The series starred real-life married couple Gene and Kathleen Lockhart as Will Lockhart and Mrs. Lockhart (first name never announced). In...
Topics: OTRR, Old Time Radio Researchers Group, Old Time Radio, OTRR Set, OTRR Maintained Set, Abroad with...
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THE DENNIS DAY SHOW Ryan Ellett Coming off working on a year-long television series entitled The Dennis Day Show (also referred to as The RCA Victor Show ) that ran from 1953 to 1954, Dennis Day returned with another namesake series in 1954, this one for radio. In June of 1954 it was announced that Mytinger & Casselberry Inc., distributor of the Nutrilite food supplement product, was going to enter the world of radio advertising by sponsoring its first show. The new series was to feature...
Topics: OTRR, Old Time Radio Researchers Group, Old Time Radio, OTRR Set, OTRR Maintained Set, The Dennis...
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Sep 11, 2022
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THIS IS JAZZ Premiering on January 18, 1947, host Rudi Blesh’s This Is Jazz aired until October 4 of the same year. Blesh was a jazz historian, commentator, and promoter with a special interest in earlier jazz tunes and performers. His first book, Shining Trumpets , was published in 1946, a year before his radio series. This Is Jazz originated from New York’s WOR and was broadcast over the Mutual network as an unsponsored program. The series’ 35 episodes were later released by the...
Topics: OTRR, Old Time Radio Researchers Group, Old Time Radio, OTRR Set, OTRR Curated Set, This Is Jazz,...
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FRONTIER GENTLEMAN B. J. George “Herewith an Englishman’s account of life and death in the West. As a reporter for the London Times , he writes his colorful and unusual stories. But as a man with a gun, he lives and becomes a part of the violent years in the new territories.” Frontier Gentleman was different from other radio Westerns in that the story centered not around some colorful character out of the old West, but on a foreigner, an Englishman who came to America to experience...
Topics: OTRR, Old Time Radio Researchers Group, Old Time Radio, OTRR Set, OTRR Maintained Set, Frontier...
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Jun 17, 2022
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STROKE OF FATE Joe Webb From October to December 1953 NBC aired a curious historical series, Stroke of Fate . NBC’s inspiration was the successful CBS radio and television series You Are There . That series started in 1947 as CBS is There and soon adopted the more listener-focused name that made it famous. In 1953, the television version of the series started. NBC and others saw an opportunity to do something historical but with a twist. Rather than dropping modern day reporters into...
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The Casebook of Gregory Hood Brian Kavanaugh Tired of the role, in 1946 Basil Rathbone decided not to renew his contract playing Sherlock Holmes on radio’s The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes . Writers Denis Green and Anthony Boucher, needing a low budget summer replacement for it, came up with the idea for a San Francisco-based detective show called The Casebook of Gregory Hood. The main character, rather than being a traditional detective, was an antiques expert who encountered crime in...
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IF FREEDOM FAILED Brian Kavanaugh If Freedom Failed is a 26-episode series produced by the Armed Forces Radio Service in 1951. It presents a series of alternate-history stories of American life under a Cold War-era Communist regime. No other information is known about the background or production of this series at this point. These recordings originated with a private purchasing group and are all transfers made by Doug Hopkinson ca. 2015. OTRR Release Information: Series Name: If Freedom Failed...
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DESTINATION FREEDOM Destination Freedom (1948) Brian Kavanaugh Destination Freedom is perhaps the best-known Black old-time radio series, despite only airing on Chicago’s WMAQ and never being fully sponsored throughout its duration. This is in part due to transcription disks for three-quarters of the episodes being discovered in the early 1980s and circulated among old-time radio fans, which helped inspire additional interest and research into the show. However, the powerful – and radical,...
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TOP SECRET Ryan Ellett It was announced in May 1950 that Ilona Massey had been signed for the NBC summer series Top Secret . Massey was a Hungarian-born actress who had appeared on Broadway in the 1943 Ziegfeld Follies and in a handful of Hollywood features including Rosalie (1937), Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) and Holiday in Mexico (1947). Top Secret was slated to replace The Adventures of Christopher London in the Monday night 10:30 (EST) time slot. Both series featured tales of...
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THE MAN FROM HOMICIDE In the early 1950s radio producers were constantly seeking new themes with which to capture the listening audience. A headstrong investigator working on the side of the law, however, was a novel idea. The ABC series The Man from Homicide was based on this very premise. Originated in 1950, by radio script writer Louis Vittes, Vittes turned this idea into a finished product with talent agent Ben Pearson and Helen Mack. The Man from Homicide featured the exploits of a large,...
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STARDUST TIME Stardust Time (1959) were short five-minute (including advertising time) entertainment vignettes intended to be broadcast at 25 minutes past the hour, Monday through Friday, featuring some of the bigger names in NBC radio at the time. OTRR Release Information: Series Name: Stardust Time Release Status: OTRR Curated Release Date: December, 2021 Release Version: v 2112 Number of CDs: 1 From the Old Time Radio Researchers Group. See "Notes" Section below for more...
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STRANGE ROMANCE OF EVELYN WINTERS Brian Kavanaugh The Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters was a 15-minute serial soap opera that was broadcast weekdays at 10:30 A.M. on CBS radio stations between November 20, 1944 and November 12, 1948. The show told “the story of Gary Bennett, playwright, who suddenly and unexpectedly finds himself the guardian of lovely Evelyn Winters.” Gary was a friend of 20-year-old Evelyn’s father, who died in the war, and felt an obligation to take care of her. Only...
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THE BLACK FLAME OF THE AMAZON Ryan Ellett When Van Cronkhite Associates Incorporated, a Chicago-based radio consulting agency, dissolved in early 1938, some of its former employees promptly created TransAir Incorporated, another agency focused on building and selling radio programming, especially news and transcribed shows. With William F. Arnold as president, Ray Launder as vice-president, and John Taylor Booz as secretary, TransAir quickly sold its first series to Toledo, Ohio’s Hickok Oil...
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DUFFY’S TAVERN Kathy Hammel If radio was a horse race and the shows horses, then anyone who bet on Duffy’s Tavern would be a sure winner. Carrying the metaphor forward, the jockey for Duffy’s Tavern would be the show’s star, Ed Gardner, who voiced Archie, the tavern’s manager. Ed, whose original name was Friedrich (Eddie) Poggenburg, was a high school dropout. He never expected to be a radio star. He started his work life playing the piano and later moved on to sales. The sales job...
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JOHNNY PRESENTS – THE RUDY VALLÉE SHOW Johnny Presents – The Rudy Vallée Show was a pioneering musical variety radio program broadcast on NBC from1946 to 1947. Sponsored by Philip Morris Cigarettes during the 46 – 47 season, the show aired on Tuesdays 8:00 – 8:30 PM. Guests included Phil Silvers, Loretta Young, Kirk Douglas, and many more. The person responsible for this major step ahead in broadcasting was NBC executive Bertha Brainard, who became head of programming for NBC in 1928....
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Individual episodes from OTRR's Maintained Set of My Friend Irma: MY FRIEND IRMA My Friend Irma was developed in-house by CBS staff who were charged with creating new programming that could subsequently be pitched and sold to prospective sponsors. This was a new trend that departed from the prevailing model of the previous decade and a half in which advertising agencies would package a show – create the concept, hire the talent, and produce the broadcast – and find potential sponsors. Under...
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Episodes from the OTRR Maintained set of Life with Luigi: LIFE WITH LUIGI Ryan Ellett In early 1948 writer Cy Howard was fresh of the success of his first network hit, My Friend Irma, that had debuted on CBS the year before in 1947. It was quickly working its way to the top 20 ratings when Howard approached the network with a follow up program. The new series, tentatively titled the Little Immigrant, followed the exploits of a newcomer from Italy, Luigi Basco, who was making a new life for...
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Episodes from the OTRR Maintained set of Father Knows Best: FATHER KNOWS BEST Ryan Ellett In early 1949 General Foods, represented by Young & Rubicam and Benton & Bowles, dropped its sponsorship of the Burns & Allen radio program which advertised its Maxwell House Coffee. Executives blamed the cancellation on the program’s weekly $17,500 price tag which they claimed had become too expensive for radio in a time of growing television power. Not ready to entirely...
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Episodes from the OTRR Maintained set of Jeff Regan, Investigator: JEFF REGAN, INVESTIGATOR Jeff Regan, Investigator, was one of countless private detective series that proliferated in the years following WWII. The series initially featured Jack Webb in the title role, who was coming off his work in Pat Novak for Hire, followed by Johnny Madero, Pier 23. The series premiered July 10, 1948, over the CBS network. Originally promoted as Joe Canto, Private Eye, the series was never actually...
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Single episodes from the OTRR Maintained set of The Adventures of Philip Marlowe: ADVENTURES OF PHILIP MARLOWE Elements of mystery have always been represented in literature, but the detective story didn't arrive on the scene until the mid 1800's. Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue , published in 1841, was the first. The Murder's main character, C. Auguste Dupin, was a brilliant detective who relied on superior deductive powers to solve the crime. He and his unnamed narrator...
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Individual episodes from the OTRR Maintained set of the Tales of the Texas Rangers: TALES OF THE TEXAS RANGERS Patrick Andre From July 8, 1950 until September 14, 1952, Tales of the Texas Rangers was a western radio drama which ran on the NBC radio network. The show was modeled after the very successful Dragnet program of the time. Although setup as a western, the show was actually a police drama which used sophisticated scientific techniques to track down and apprehend the guilty party. Also,...
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Singles from the OTRR Maintained Danny Kaye set. THE DANNY KAYE SHOW In December 1944 it was announced that Pabst Sales Co. was dropping The Kenny Baker Show in favor of a vehicle for rising star Danny Kaye. Pabst had tried to sign established comedian Fred Allen for the show at a whopping cost of $25,000 per episode but the effort fizzled when Allen reportedly sniffing that he didn’t care to work for a beer company. Kaye agreed to a package costing the beer producer $16,000 per week, 2/3 the...
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THE ANDERSON FAMILY From the Encyclopedia of American Radio, 1920-1960 , The Anderson Family was "A 30-minute syndicated program. The Anderson Family told of the funny adventures of an 'average' American family. The cast included Dick Lane, Louise Arthur and Walter Tetley (30 min., weekly, 1948)." Broadcast historian Bob Dunn notes: “Not to be confused with The Andersons, a short-lived 15-minute NBC daytime soap opera (1942). Walter Tetley was in ALL sorts of shows-- Buck Rogers ,...
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FATHER KNOWS BEST Ryan Ellett In early 1949 General Foods, represented by Young & Rubicam and Benton & Bowles, dropped its sponsorship of the Burns & Allen radio program which advertised its Maxwell House Coffee. Executives blamed the cancellation on the program’s weekly $17,500 price tag which they claimed had become too expensive for radio in a time of growing television power. Not ready to entirely abandon radio, General Foods (still through Benton & Bowles) committed...
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TALES OF THE TEXAS RANGERS Patrick Andre From July 8, 1950 until September 14, 1952, Tales of the Texas Rangers was a western radio drama which ran on the NBC radio network. The show was modeled after the very successful Dragnet program of the time. Although setup as a western, the show was actually a police drama which used sophisticated scientific techniques to track down and apprehend the guilty party. Also, instead of setting the time frame in the 1800’s that was common for westerns at...
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LIFE WITH LUIGI Ryan Ellett In early 1948 writer Cy Howard was fresh of the success of his first network hit, My Friend Irma , that had debuted on CBS the year before in 1947. It was quickly working its way to the top 20 ratings when Howard approached the network with a follow up program. The new series, tentatively titled the Little Immigrant , followed the exploits of a newcomer from Italy, Luigi Basco, who was making a new life for himself in Chicago. Early in the development of the series...
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JEFF REGAN, INVESTIGATOR Jeff Regan, Investigator , was one of countless private detective series that proliferated in the years following WWII. The series initially featured Jack Webb in the title role, who was coming off his work in Pat Novak for Hire , followed by Johnny Madero, Pier 23 . The series premiered July 10, 1948, over the CBS network. Originally promoted as Joe Canto, Private Eye , the series was never actually broadcast under that name. However, Barton Yarborough, Jack Webb’s...
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MAGIC ISLAND Magic Island was a syndicated serial that first aired sometime in 1936 and consisted of one hundred thirty 12-minute episodes. The story line dealt with a wealthy woman and her search for her long lost daughter. She finds her on a man-made island that can submerge to avoid detection. The series was targeted for a juvenile audience and small children are the main focus of the story line. What would you do if your child was lost? How long would you search in order to have your child...
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FIREFIGHTERS Ryan Ellett Firefighters was a syndicated series produced by Cincinnati’s William F. Holland Productions, Inc. in 1948. It was aired in various markets from coast-to-coast, including Portland, OR, Omaha, NE, and Washington, D.C., into the early 1950s. It followed the adventures of rookie firefighter Tim Collins and fire chief Bob Cody. Written by Walter Covell and Frank Jones, Firefighters starred Cameron Prud’Homme and Lyle Sudrow. Other actors included Don Gardner, Ethel...
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ADVENTURES BY MORSE Adventures by Morse takes its place alongside I Love A Mystery , One Man's Family and other works by prolific author Carlton E. Morse. Produced after I Love A Mystery , this transcribed and syndicated show continued the earlier program's preoccupation with the eerie and the exotic. Captain Bart Friday and his trusted companion Skip Turner ranged throughout the world in their quest for dangerous challenges to overcome. Undaunted by Nazis, murderers, vampires, deadly serpents,...
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MY FRIEND IRMA My Friend Irma was developed in-house by CBS staff who were charged with creating new programming that could subsequently be pitched and sold to prospective sponsors. This was a new trend that departed from the prevailing model of the previous decade and a half in which advertising agencies would package a show – create the concept, hire the talent, and produce the broadcast – and find potential sponsors. Under the old model networks such as CBS made money by selling time on...
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THE DANNY KAYE SHOW In December 1944 it was announced that Pabst Sales Co. was dropping The Kenny Baker Show in favor of a vehicle for rising star Danny Kaye. Pabst had tried to sign established comedian Fred Allen for the show at a whopping cost of $25,000 per episode but the effort fizzled when Allen reportedly sniffing that he didn’t care to work for a beer company. Kaye agreed to a package costing the beer producer $16,000 per week, 2/3 the cost of Fred Allen. The Danny Kaye Show debuted...
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THE CLYDE BEATTY SHOW Clyde Beatty, born in 1903, was a household name by the mid-20th century, recognized as one of the world’s most renowned animal trainers. Beatty was a multi-media star; over the course of a long career he ran his own circus and featured in motion pictures, multi-chapter movie serials, comic books, television, and radio. The Clyde Beatty Show represents the pinnacle of his broadcasting career. Commodore Productions and Artists Inc. announced the program in November, 1949,...
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THE CLYDE BEATTY SHOW Clyde Beatty, born in 1903, was a household name by the mid-20th century, recognized as one of the world’s most renowned animal trainers. Beatty was a multi-media star; over the course of a long career he ran his own circus and featured in motion pictures, multi-chapter movie serials, comic books, television, and radio. The Clyde Beatty Show represents the pinnacle of his broadcasting career. Commodore Productions and Artists Inc. announced the program in November, 1949,...
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CHRISTMAS SING WITH BING Recordings of Bing Crosby's annual Christmas Sing with Bing broadcast over CBS on Christmas Eve from 1955 to 1962. OTRR Release Information: Series Name: Christmas Sing with Bing Release Status: OTRR Non-Maintained Release Date: January 9, 2018 Release Version: Version 1901 Number of CDs: 1 From the Old Time Radio Researchers Group. See "Notes" Section below for more information on the OTRR.
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TARZAN The OTRR distribution of Tarzan consists of four separate productions of Tarzan: Tarzan of the Apes (1932 - 1934) Tarzan and the Diamond of Asher (1934) Tarzan and the Fires of Tohr (1936) Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1951 - 1953) This is the OTRR Singles Episode page for: TARZAN THE 1951 SERIES ON RADIO The Commodore Productions and Artists, Inc. production of Tarzan contains 75 episodes that were aired in 1951 and 1952. From the Old Time Radio Researchers Group. See "Notes"...
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TARZAN The OTRR distribution of Tarzan consists of four separate productions of Tarzan: Tarzan of the Apes (1932 - 1934) Tarzan and the Diamond of Asher (1934) Tarzan and the Fires of Tohr (1936) Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1951 - 1953) This is the OTRR Singles Episode page for: TARZAN AND THE FIRES OF TOHR While investigating the illegal activities of slave traders and ivory smugglers, Tarzan and his friend, Paul D'Arnot save a member of the Burton-Ashleigh Expedition from death. After...
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TARZAN The OTRR distribution of Tarzan consists of four separate productions of Tarzan: Tarzan of the Apes (1932 - 1934) Tarzan and the Diamond of Asher (1934) Tarzan and the Fires of Tohr (1936) Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1951 - 1953) This is the OTRR Singles Episode page for: TARZAN AND THE DIAMOND OF ASHER Although originally broadcast in 1934, the following introduction was penned by Edgar Rice Burroughs for the announcer to read introducing a 1940 broadcast of Tarzan And The Diamond of...
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TARZAN The OTRR distribution of Tarzan consists of four separate productions of Tarzan: Tarzan of the Apes (1932 - 1934) Tarzan and the Diamond of Asher (1934) Tarzan and the Fires of Tohr (1936) Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1951 - 1953) This is the OTRR Singles Episode page for: TARZAN OF THE APES By the early 1930's radio programs held a place in American culture similar to television shows today. Families would gather nightly around the radio and listen to the continuing adventures of Little...
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THIS IS YOUR FBI This Is Your FBI was a radio crime drama which aired in the United States on ABC from April 6, 1945 to January 30, 1953 for a total of 409 shows. The show featured true cases from FBI, and told from an agent's viewpoint. FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover gave it his endorsement, considering it "Our Show" and calling it "the finest dramatic program on the air". The shows would involve everything from crackdowns on organized crime, or stories of individual...
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THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM The Jack Benny Program aired from May 2, 1932 until June 22, 1958. The show was identified by different names based on the particular sponsor at the time. The Canada Dry Program was on the air from May 2, 1932 until October 26, 1932. It starred Jack Benny. The announcer was George Hicks with George Olsen and his wife Ethel Shutta providing music and vocals, and Jack's wife, Sadye Marks, as Mary Livingstone. The show moved over to CBS on October 30, 1932 to January 26,...
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JACK BENNY GUEST STARS ON OTHER SHOWS Jack Benny appears as a Guest Star on episodes of the following radio shows (the abbreviation in the title of the episode represents the original show name): BA = Burns and Allen BC = Bing Crosby BM = Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy CP = Command Performance CPH = Campbell Playhouse EC = Eddie Cantor FA = Fred Allen GAOR = Golden Age of Radio GIJ = GI Journal Lux = Lux Radio Theater MB = Mail Call PHAF = Phil Harris & Alice Faye SUS = Suspense SVT =...
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JACK BENNY GUEST STARS ON OTHER SHOWS Jack Benny appears as a Guest Star on episodes of the following radio shows (the abbreviation in the title of the episode represents the original show name): BA = Burns and Allen BC = Bing Crosby BM = Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy CP = Command Performance CPH = Campbell Playhouse EC = Eddie Cantor FA = Fred Allen GAOR = Golden Age of Radio GIJ = GI Journal Lux = Lux Radio Theater MB = Mail Call PHAF = Phil Harris & Alice Faye SUS = Suspense SVT =...
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THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM The Jack Benny Program aired from May 2, 1932 until June 22, 1958. The show was identified by different names based on the particular sponsor at the time. The Canada Dry Program was on the air from May 2, 1932 until October 26, 1932. It starred Jack Benny. The announcer was George Hicks with George Olsen and his wife Ethel Shutta providing music and vocals, and Jack's wife, Sadye Marks, as Mary Livingstone. The show moved over to CBS on October 30, 1932 to January 26,...
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THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM The Jack Benny Program aired from May 2, 1932 until June 22, 1958. The show was identified by different names based on the particular sponsor at the time. The Canada Dry Program was on the air from May 2, 1932 until October 26, 1932. It starred Jack Benny. The announcer was George Hicks with George Olsen and his wife Ethel Shutta providing music and vocals, and Jack's wife, Sadye Marks, as Mary Livingstone. The show moved over to CBS on October 30, 1932 to January 26,...
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THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM The Jack Benny Program aired from May 2, 1932 until June 22, 1958. The show was identified by different names based on the particular sponsor at the time. The Canada Dry Program was on the air from May 2, 1932 until October 26, 1932. It starred Jack Benny. The announcer was George Hicks with George Olsen and his wife Ethel Shutta providing music and vocals, and Jack's wife, Sadye Marks, as Mary Livingstone. The show moved over to CBS on October 30, 1932 to January 26,...
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THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM The Jack Benny Program aired from May 2, 1932 until June 22, 1958. The show was identified by different names based on the particular sponsor at the time. The Canada Dry Program was on the air from May 2, 1932 until October 26, 1932. It starred Jack Benny. The announcer was George Hicks with George Olsen and his wife Ethel Shutta providing music and vocals, and Jack's wife, Sadye Marks, as Mary Livingstone. The show moved over to CBS on October 30, 1932 to January 26,...
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THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM The Jack Benny Program aired from May 2, 1932 until June 22, 1958. The show was identified by different names based on the particular sponsor at the time. The Canada Dry Program was on the air from May 2, 1932 until October 26, 1932. It starred Jack Benny. The announcer was George Hicks with George Olsen and his wife Ethel Shutta providing music and vocals, and Jack's wife, Sadye Marks, as Mary Livingstone. The show moved over to CBS on October 30, 1932 to January 26,...
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